Once an Outlaw

Once an Outlaw

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Logan Kincaid had been Shot and Left for Dead!

The last thing Logan remembered, he'd been riding under cover with an outlaw gang. He had no idea how he had wound up in Jessie Winslow's bed being nursed back to health. All he knew for certain was that he'd finally found the woman of his dreams.

Jessie was determined to make it on her own, until the day she found the stranger near death on her doorstep. The mysterious gunslinger didn't even trust her enough to tell her his last name, yet Logan was the only man who had ever found the key to Jessie's lonely heart.

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Theresa Michaels's Bio

Always an avid reader, Theresa Michaels, busy with a career as a corporate office manager and motherhood, discovered romance novels in the mid-1980s and was hooked.

Writing grew out of a love for history and reading. Dealing with a large family and assorted pets, along with laundry that multiplied by itself, lent little free time and it took almost a year for her to complete her first book.

This began a series of firsts. The first agent queried said yes, but the first book sale followed a memorable birthday present to herself. She quit her job and set a personal deadline of two years to learn the craft of writing and sell a book.

Three weeks shy of that deadline, at her first writers conference in Florida, she saw that first-sale dream come true.

Theresa was a multipublished, award-winning author when she sold her first book to Harlequin Historicals. A Corner of Heaven, which was rereleased in August 1999, continued an unprecedented award-winning streak resulting in at least one award per published book.

Her favorite time periods are medieval, the old West and the Civil War. She loves researching womens roles in these time frames. Her stories are character driven; their development comes first, then plotting takes shape to meet both the heros and heroines needs.

A strong belief in the healing power of love is what she brings to her writing. Love, she feels, is the greatest gift. Each romance she writes is a celebration of love in its forms.

For Theresa, the romance novel is a reaffirmation that all the drama, passion, humor, and trials by fire for her fictional characters will end with their magical moment when love overcomes the darker forces. And love, she will tell you, can heal.

Sarah, the last of the Merry Widows trilogy published in 1999, was a milestone 10th book for Harlequin Historicals. Once a Hero, the fourth in the Kincaid series, is a March 2000 release, and in October she has a story in the Harlequin Historicals Christmas anthology. November will see the publication of the second Clan Gunn book with a third to follow.

No matter how richly rewarding her writing is, Theresa feels that reward is doubled when readers and booksellers generously share their own feelings about her books.

When not writing on her typewriter  and, yes, she can hear the moans and groans that she does not use a computer, but this is part of her creative process  she rescues stray cats, gardens, and steals every moment to read and keep in touch with a network of friends, readers, and booksellers.